Saturday, November 11, 2006

Devastation

Devastation

The hardening is deliberate and cruel, as is all that will come thereafter. The only consolation being that so many, so very many others, share the same fate.

The heat, the sweat, the pain. Left and right, succumbing to the pressure, those known to you perish. Blown apart, ripped open, left white in shock. Naked guts torn inside out. A mushroom cloud of exposed flesh, shards of skeleton clinging to the core.

Throw these now (still exhaling steam) to the gaping maw, to be mashed to pulp and lowered into hot acid. Ground in the mingled bile and bones of comrades, and finally rammed the length of a cold hard pipe into a rotting cesspool…